Such a hateful cruel man. A reflection of a significant segment of our fellow citizens.

but politics and greed push it to the back pages. Trump, dangerous, climate change? An extreme danger.

Parts of the world where people have been living for hundreds of years are unfarmable now; those people have to go somewhere.
And the West is just sitting around pretending it's only temporary, those people can always go back.

But even if you get rid of the religious/political issues in those regions - there's nothing for them to go back to, other than over-crowded cities and failing farmland.
Which probably is the root cause for all the current religious/political craziness they're fleeing in their countries.

When your home and "deeply held" traditions can no longer sustain you and your family, you become desperate. Millions of people are now desperate, because they can't cope with the change.
We've been ignoring this at our peril for over 60 years of arrogant pre-colonialism. Scientists and Sociologists have been warning about this for decades...

Yay corporate culture! Late to reality as usual.

Haele

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Yep. While we're all sitting here, chanting USA! USA! We're #1! We're #1!, China acts as a collective nation state and secures crop leases for 40-50 years into the future. Soon, America is going to be Fuuuuucked for Food!

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We either do it peacefully, or it will be through conflict. Which do we prefer?

We obviously prefer armed conflict, and lots of it.

They think their wealth and guarded communities will save them until the rest of the world kills each other or dies of starvation/drowning.

There is no way to play out the apocalyptic end scenes without everyone, even the "blessed ones", suffering. The planet as a whole will suffer also but other species will rebound better than us and new ones will evolve to deal with the mess we've left.

but rather a matter of some using far more than what is necessary. Conspicuous consumption is the issue not population size. Where does conspicuous consumption originate? Capitalism. Capitalism is the problem.

I wonder if impoverished villagers in, say Ethiopia, hear these news stories and think "omg we've got to reduce the population!"

So unless you're proposing a mandatory maximum age ala Logan's Run what more do you expect us to do to reduce the population besides killing ourselves?

according to http://www.populationconnection.org. And in most countries there is not legal, safe abortion. Even in the U.S., about half of pregnancies are unplanned, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

The world fertility rate may be half of what it is in the 1960's, but even so, the population is increasing by 1 billion every 12 or so years, has been for about the last 3 billion increase in population, and is projected to continue at about that rate for the next few decades before slowing down.

There are a lot of Russian oligarchs (Manafart being one) plus a lot of scum sucking GOPeers. I could make you a list.

Return of the Middle Ages

My advice? Stockpile good books.

why would anyone bother working at a bank instead of gathering family to help each other through their last years?

Hundreds of millions of vulnerable people will die, are dying, even in hopeful projections, however.

But leave me the keys to your Porsche.

Rapture - give me your useless money

This past week that he has been proactive and has funds for fighting the fires for now, but not all government officials are as realistic and prudent as they are NY and CA. The whole planet is on the fast track to destruction...gee, what a surprise.

They kill off a few million brown or yellow or black people